cat and binary files

[Tim Iverson]

Gah, you can't be serious.  Reload the entire source tree every time I
switch to binary mode?  That's quick.  And once I get there, I'm stuck
in Cygnus-binary-land with no way to play with anything but Cygnus code.

As to Unix emulation -- if that's the goal of the project, then I'll
simply stop wasting time on Cygnus' GNU tools and buy someone else's
product (yup, I'd pay for it if it worked ;-).  I usually use Unix, so
when I want Unix, I'll use the real thing, not some half-baked
emulation that can't interoperate with anything else on the system.

Rhetoric aside, I really don't think sterile emulation is Cygnus'
goal.  I suspect (and hope) that the ultimate goal would be to port
the GNU toolset to Windows.  This means interoperating with the native
tools and supporting Windows' standards, however onerous they may be.


- Tim Iverson
  iverson@cisco.com


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| From: "Mikey" <jeffdb@netzone.com>
| To: "Tim Iverson" <iverson@cisco.com>
| Cc: "cygnus" <gnu-win32@cygnus.com>
| Subject: Re: cat and binary files
| Date: Thu, 10 Apr 1997 16:17:09 -0700
| 
| Rebuilding would only fail miserably, IF you didn't reinstall your headers,
| and source, after remounting with -b, UNIX, which gnu-win32 is supposed to
| be an emulation of, dosen't recognize CR as a necessary line delimiter, nor
| does it recognize in line EOF characters like ^Z.
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